Connecticut

Storm History: Northwest Hills Planning Region, Connecticut

761 episodes, 1,645 events since 1951

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Northwest Hills Planning Region, Connecticut: floods, hail, damaging wind, tornadoes, winter storms, heat and the rest, with the most serious on record. Events filed by forecast zone count for every county the zone covers.

The record

Events
1,645
Deaths
6
Injuries
55
Damage
$60 million
Episodes
761

Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.

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Every year

From 1996 the record holds 48 kinds of event with each office’s narrative; before that, tornadoes, hail and thunderstorm wind only, and before 1955 tornadoes alone.

By kind of event

Counted under the kind that heads each episode.

Kind of eventEventsDeathsInjuriesDamage
Thunderstorm Wind36514$552,000
Hail20903$289,000
Winter Weather18302$4,000
Flash Flood14610$3.4 million
Tornado125144$52 million
Heat9601
Flood9000$1.6 million
Winter Storm8610$1.3 million
High Wind5610$421,000
Strong Wind4901$97,000
Cold/Wind Chill4700
Heavy Snow4100$80,000
Frost/Freeze3700$2,000
Excessive Heat3200
Drought2400
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill2300$2,000
Tropical Storm1200
Blizzard810
Lightning700$1.2 million
Ice Storm500
Tropical Depression200
Wildfire100
Funnel Cloud100

The deadliest

The costliest

Damage within this county, in the dollars of its year.

The largest hail

The largest stone in each episode, which may have fallen in a neighboring county of the same episode.

The strongest tornadoes

Every tornado in Northwest Hills Planning Region, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Northwest Hills Planning RegionEvery warning in Northwest Hills Planning Region since 1986Every county in Connecticut

Sources

NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24.